4:43 PM,
Apr. 29, 2014

A small headstone marks the grave of a stillborn baby found inside a garbage bag in a wooded area south of Theresa.

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For years, Dodge County investigator Vickie Brugger has struggled to comprehend the circumstances that would drive a mother to abandon her stillborn infant in a remote wooded area.

It was five years ago on April 29 that Brugger was called to the scene to investigate a report of an infant found inside a plastic garbage bag just off Lone Road in the town of Theresa.

"What is her story and why did this child have to be disposed of like she was?" Brugger said of the infant girl called Baby Theresa by Dodge County Sheriff's investigators after the township in which she was found. ...